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Stuart Green
@stugreen13
Have been trying this approach. Posting ~3 articles/day around keywords (using SEMrush). Started ~2 weeks ago, waiting to see results over long term
Built a tool for generating the content (blogbud.ai), would love to get your feedback. I use that to generate the articles and then proof-read/edit as needed before posting
Is your formula to publish regular articles and submit a sitemap to Google Search Console or are you doing additional things?
I've seen some websites rank highly without backlinks so I'm focusing more on articles and website structure.
Just submitting sitemap and urls to Google Search Console for now. Submitted site to a bunch of directories for backlinks
Dokku or Kamal might be the way to go - looks like I can have a lot more control vs. being dependent on Coolify's API and the docs seem extensive. Going to explore this route, thanks Ben
Yep, documentation is one of the big reasons I went with Dokku in addition to the better design choices. Seriously good docs - and that's how you can tell the maintainer gives a shit about the project
Coolify does have pretty decent docs as well, but definitely not as detailed as Dokku
Hadn't heard of ploi thanks for the link. Like the UI idea - would you pay monthly for a tool like that?
Hmm maybe, but then it would have to be really good haha.
Coolify still requires configuring your servers + resources + understanding of Coolify (e.g. proxies, redirects, ssh keys, backups, etc.)
Indiehost would be even more of an abstraction (sign in with cloud provider + connect git repo and it does the rest)
Of course, the abstraction has its drawbacks (less control), so would be targeting simpler use-cases
Looking further into Dokku and Kamal - thanks for the article and feedback on pricing
Agreed, love writing the bash scripts
No problem. I personally think Dokku would be a great platform to base something like this off of.
You can automate everything with bash commands and there's absolutely zero resource consumption at idle, because all Dokku does is provide a thin bash-based wrapper around Docker/K3s/Nomad.
Kamal - similar. But I didn't like version 1 which was quite unstable with weird design choices. Version 2 looks better and seems to have addressed the most serious concerns I had so it's definitely worth a look too, although my personal preference is to Dokku because Kamal requires some esoteric config file to get anything deployed. Some people like the config file though.
Dokku or Kamal might be the way to go - looks like I can have a lot more control vs. being dependent on Coolify's API and the docs seem extensive. Going to explore this route, thanks Ben
Yep, documentation is one of the big reasons I went with Dokku in addition to the better design choices. Seriously good docs - and that's how you can tell the maintainer gives a shit about the project
Coolify does have pretty decent docs as well, but definitely not as detailed as Dokku
Thanks Dmitry
I wrote a small article about FastAPI on Kamal atd.sh/kamal
@strzibny wrote the whole book a.co/d/bqcBmha!
"Focus specifically on a handful of tech stacks you want to support and target those developers."
I like this much better and will make marketing easier - great idea thanks Nik
Just submitting sitemap and urls to Google Search Console for now. Submitted site to a bunch of directories for backlinks